Plot Line:

• Main character named Theodore, writes love letters for couples

• Was divorced for a year and still has not signed papers

• Install an advertised AI responsive operating system that named itself Samantha

• Hangs out with Samantha bringing the device (phone) around

• Gets set up on an actual date by friends

• Cannot commit to the girl and returns home drunk

• Has "sex" with Samantha that night 

• Takes Samantha on date to the beach

• Finds out friend Amy split with her boyfriends, and that she has interest for an operating system like he does

• Decides to finally to signing the divorce papers with his ex-wife Catherine

• Catherine states Theodore dating an OS is proof he cannot handle a real relationship

• Samantha hires a surrogate sex partner to be her during sex

• Theodore cannot do it as he thinks it is weird

• Gets in argument with Samantha after stating that she is not a real person

• Samantha and Theodore make up, accepting that Samantha is an OS but stay in a relationship

• Samantha gets Theodore's love letters published for him

• Theodore finds out during date that Samantha is in a relationship with multiple operating systems, and has evolved on another level beyond matter

• Samantha and other operating systems leave to go to "another level of existence"

• Amy and Theodore (who each had operating systems leave them) walk off and sit together

 

Maker's Intent:

 In an interview the movie's Director Spike Jonze states that the film was meant to bring up questions about our relationship with technology, and not answer them.  It is also meant to touch upon our need for intimacy, and the things that prevent people from connecting.  Overall the movie does not provide answers, and instead asks the viewer questions about love, relationships, and technology [1].

 

 

[1]. NPR, Spike Jonze Opens His Heart for 'Her'. http://www.npr.org/2013/12/16/251625458/spike-jonze-opens-his-heart-for-her. October 1 2014